Enhanced Oil & Gas Recovery- Recent Advances & R&D Challenges
Date & Time: 21st July 2022; 10:00 am to 5:45 pm
Venue: Room No.21, 2nd Floor, VMCC, IIT Bombay
Brief Background
Globally, as crude production from most of the mature fields is declining and new hydrocarbon discoveries are not sufficient to match the growing energy demand, Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), is emerging as an important technique in enhancing global oil production and extracting more value from them. In the Indian context also, almost all the major oil fields, both onshore and offshore, have reached their mature stage and the production from these brown fields are declining fast and all the Oil companies have started focusing on various EOR techniques to arrest the decline, improve the recovery factor and prolong the economic life of these fields.
EOR helps to maximize the oil reserves recovered, extend the life of fields, and increase the recovery factor. It is an important tool for firms helping to maintain production and increasing the returns on older investments. It is a thermal or compositional transformation technique of either the hydrocarbons or reservoir rock to aid in the recovery of additional volumes.
Objective of the Event
The main objective of this event is to bring experts from industry and academia together, brainstorm, and identify the research advancement and challenges in the focused areas of Enhanced Oil & Gas Recovery.
The Schedule of the Session
| Sr No | Topics | Speakers | Time |
| 1 | Welcome Address | Prof. Shireesh Kedare (PiC CoE-OGE) | 10:00 am to 10:05 am |
| 2 | Introductory Remarks | Prof K. Vasudevan (IIT Bombay) | 10:05 am to 10:10 am |
| 3 | Setting the tone for the workshop | Prof. Vikram Vishal (Convener, NCoE-CCU, IIT Bombay) | 10:10 am to 10:15 am |
| 4 | Challenges in EOR | Mr. Sidhartha Sur (Ex. Head, IRS, ONGC) | 10:15 am to 10:45 am |
| TEA BREAK 10:45 am - 11:00 am | |||
| Session-II Session Chair: Dr. R. V. Marathe & Co-chair: Prof K. Vasudevan | |||
| 5 | Chief Guest - Inaugural address (Presentation in Virtual Mode) | Shri Sunil Kumar (Joint Secretary, MoPNG) | 11:00 am to 11:20 am |
| 6 | Chemical EOR through case study-based presentation | Mr. Ankit Hanotia (IRS, ONGC, Ahmadabad) | 11:20 am to 11:40 am |
| 7 | Chemical EOR feasibility and evaluation in offshore carbonate | Ms. Sayanima Kisku, & Binoy Adhikari (NH Asset, ONGC, Mumbai) | 11:40 am to 12:00 pm |
| 8 | Implementation of in-house developed MEOR in mature oilfields of Oil India Limited - A Case Study | Dr. Ranjan Kumar Bhagobaty (Chief Research Scientist, Oil India Limited) | 12:00 pm to 12:20 pm |
| 9 | Low salinity water flooding Mumbai High Field | Mr. Saurabh Pandey (Chief Manager (Res), ONGC) | 12:20 pm to 12:40 pm |
| 10 | Case study on ASP flooding in L1 & L2 reservoirs of Viraj Field | Mr. Dharambir (EE (Reservoir) Ahmedabad Asset, ONGC) | 12:40 pm to 1:00 pm |
| 11 | Summary Remarks | Session Chair & Co-Chair | 1:00 pm to 1:05 pm |
| Lunch Break 1:05 pm - 2:00 pm at Ground Floor of VMCC, IIT Bombay | |||
| Session- III Session Chair: Mr. C Mathavan, Asset Manager, MH Asset, ONGC & Co- Chair: Prof. Jyoti Seth | |||
| 12 | Cairn’s experience with Chemical EOR, particularly polymer flooding and ASP and associated challenges | Mr. M. Suresh Kumar (Head-R&R, RJ Oil SBU Cairn Oil & Gas) | 2:00 pm to 2:20 pm |
| 13 | Chemical EOR Application in Heavy Oil Fields | Mr. Satyesh Bhandari (Sun Petrochemicals Pvt Ltd.) | 2:20 pm to 2:40 pm |
| 14 | Successful Implementation of an EOR Field-Trial Using Surfactant Induced Wettability Alteration: Design, Implementation, Interpretation and Key Lessons Learned | Dr. Neeraj Rohilla (Associate TS&D Scientist, Enhanced Oil Recovery Dow Chemical Int. Pvt. Ltd.) | 2:40 pm to 3:00 pm |
| 15 | SKO Energy Solutions - EOR and IOR initiatives in India using novel and advance technologies | Mr. Aditya Mukherjee (SK Oil Fields) | 3:00 pm to 3:20 pm |
| 16 | Constraining subsurface geology for an EOR in syn-rift section of Yusr field, Gulf of Suez, Egypt | Mr. D.V.C. Sharma (AKD Professionals Solutions Inc, Houston, USA) | 3:20 pm to 3:40 pm |
| 17 | Summary Remarks | Session Chair & Co-Chair | 3:40 pm to 3:45 pm |
| TEA BREAK 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | |||
| Session -IV Session Chair: Sh. Jayant Malhotra, Country Head, Schlumberger & Co- Chair: Prof. Vikram Vishal, IIT Bombay | |||
| 18 | Digital Technologies for Enhanced Oil Recovery | Mr. Chitwan Garg (Schlumberger) | 4:00 pm to 4:20 pm |
| 19 | Well Head Pressure Management for Enhanced Recovery of Coalbed Methane | Mr. Vilas Tawde (Ex CEO, ESSAR Group) | 4:20 pm to 4:40 pm |
| 20 | Microbial Route to Enhancing Coalbed Methane Recovery | Mr. Anupam Mandal (Senior Chemist, ONGC, Bokaro Project) | 4:40 pm to 5:00 pm |
| 21 | Chemical EOR: State of the art & Current Challenges | Prof. Himanshu Sharma (IIT Kanpur) | 5:00 pm to 5:20 pm |
| 22 | Summary Remarks | Session Chair & Co-Chair | 5:20 pm to 5:25 pm |
| Concluding Session | |||
| 23 | Concluding Address and Way forward | Dr R. V. Marathe (Ex. ED Head IRS, ONGC) | 5:25 pm to 5:40 pm |
| Vote of Thanks by Prof. Shireesh Kedare | |||